create-rpc v1.13.0

create-rpc

Starter template of Typescript web server with auto-generated client SDK using RPC with ajax.

Usage

Interactive mode:

npm init rpc
# or
npx create-rpc

Non-interactive mode:

npx -y create-rpc --single [project-name]
# or
npx -y create-rpc --multi [project-name]
# or
npx -y create-rpc --restful [project-name]

Template Features

• Auto-generate standalone1 client SDK in Typescript
• Infer input/output type from sample data or cast.ts parser
• Auto apply runtime type checking on input/output data
• Auto-generate (knex) database migration with quick-erd
• Typed array-like ORM with better-sqlite3-proxy
• Hashing password with bcrypt
• JWT generation
• Auto-storing JWT token
• Dotenv setup
• Multiple templates
  • single module API
  • multi module API
  • restful API

1: The generated client sdk is self-contained. You don't need to import the server from the client project.

Available Commands

Inside the server directory, you can run several commands:

npm start
  Starts the auto-refresh development server.
  [single module] It auto generates the client/src/sdk.ts based on the APIs defined in server/src/core.ts.
  [multi module] It auto generates the client/src/api/[name].ts based on the APIs defined in server/src/modules/[name].ts.
  [restful] It auto generates the client/src/api/[name].ts based on the APIs defined in server/src/modules/[name].ts.

npm run db:setup
  Migrate the database schema to latest version.

npm run db:plan
  Auto-generate migration based on erd.txt and current database schema.

npm run db:update
  Apply the new migration plan, and update the proxy.ts based on the erd.txt.

npm run db:seed
  Populate the database with sample data in server/seed.ts.

npm run build
  Builds the web project into 'dist' folder.

License

This project is licensed with BSD-2-Clause

This is free, libre, and open-source software. It comes down to four essential freedoms [ref]:

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others